June 7, 2017: The Play An Act Of God Cannot Decide What It Wants To Be,
2017
Duquesne University
June 7, 2017: The Play An Act Of God Cannot Decide What It Wants To Be, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “The play An Act of God Cannot Decide What It Wants to Be“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
June 1, 2017: Exiting The Paris Accord,
2017
Duquesne University
June 1, 2017: Exiting The Paris Accord, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Exiting the Paris Accord“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
The Philosopher And The Developer: Pluralist Moral Theory And The Law Of Condominium,
2017
University of British Columbia
The Philosopher And The Developer: Pluralist Moral Theory And The Law Of Condominium, Jason Leslie
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
This paper analyzes the evolving law of condominium from the perspective of the moral philosophy of property, focusing in particular on neo-Aristotelian value or pluralist ethics. By combining aspects of traditional property law, corporate law, and municipal politics, condominium provides a flexible tool for ownership and private land use planning. Condominium, however, also poses novel and unique challenges to both legal doctrine and the very meaning of private property. After describing and comparing the pluralist approach to moral philosophy of property and the approach of its main rivals—deontology and utilitarianism—the paper describes how condominium is understood by each approach and …
Do Muddy Waters Shift Burdens?,
2017
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Do Muddy Waters Shift Burdens?, Carrie Sperling, Kimberly Holst
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Problems With Moral Subjectivism,
2017
Singapore Management University
The Problems With Moral Subjectivism, Seow Hon Tan
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
Moral dialogue for moral subjectivists is gravely limited. As soon as moral subjectivists hold another person to any moral standard independent of the person’s belief, they must give up their moral subjectivism. Some moral subjectivists might turn out to be moral realists who accord primacy to autonomy. This, however, is a senseless position that renders all persons equally worthless, unless such moral realists concede that norms that limit autonomy exist. But if so, they are not different from any other moral realists after all.
May 27, 2017: Getting Tired Of The Russia Thing,
2017
Duquesne University
May 27, 2017: Getting Tired Of The Russia Thing, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Getting Tired of the Russia Thing“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
Revolutionary Disobedience,
2017
Barry University School of Law
Revolutionary Disobedience, Philip K. Y. Lau
Barry Law Review
Over the past few decades, civil disobedience has become one of the most widely studied subjects in jurisprudence. Scholars such as Rawls and Dworkin have offered their unique reflections on the subject. Whilst many have made great contributions to clarify its purposes and justifications, they have neglected one of the most important and fundamental forms of political disobedience, namely revolutionary disobedience. Unlike an act of civil disobedience, which recognizes governmental authority and legitimacy, revolutionary disobedience explicitly denies and challenges them. Manifested as a rupture between the constituent power (ruled/governed) and constituted power (ruler/governor) in a given state, it is designed …
May 22, 2017: Putnam Versus Scalia,
2017
Duquesne University
May 22, 2017: Putnam Versus Scalia, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Putnam versus Scalia“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
May 16, 2017: When All The Churches Are Gone,
2017
Duquesne University
May 16, 2017: When All The Churches Are Gone, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “When All the Churches are Gone“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
May 9, 2017: What Can Democracy Do?,
2017
Duquesne University
May 9, 2017: What Can Democracy Do?, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “What Can Democracy Do?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
May 3, 2017: What Threat From Ai,
2017
Duquesne University
May 3, 2017: What Threat From Ai, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “What Threat from AI“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
Unilateral Jurisdiction To Provide Global Public Goods: A Republican Account,
2017
Brooklyn Law School
Unilateral Jurisdiction To Provide Global Public Goods: A Republican Account, Aravind Ganesh
Brooklyn Journal of International Law
Failures of international cooperation with regard to protecting the environment, regulating cross-border competition, and preventing terrorism have sometimes lead states to enact unilateral measures with extraterritorial effect. A common trend among international legal scholars defending these measures is to employ the concept of ‘global public goods,’ understood as desirable, utility-advancing things that tend, for various reasons, to be undersupplied by states acting separately. On this view, unilateral measures are justified on grounds that they address ‘harms’ to ‘interests’ that cannot be contained within individual states, or because they advance supposedly universal ‘values.’ Drawing from the ‘republican’ legal and political philosophy …
April 24, 2017: What Is At Stake In The Hypocrisy Of Originalism?,
2017
Duquesne University
April 24, 2017: What Is At Stake In The Hypocrisy Of Originalism?, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “What is at Stake in the Hypocrisy of Originalism?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
The Other Preamble: Civic Constitutionalism And The Preamble To The Bill Of Rights,
2017
wesleyan university
The Other Preamble: Civic Constitutionalism And The Preamble To The Bill Of Rights, John E. Finn
Concordia Law Review
This Article considers the civic constitutionalist nature of the Preamble to the Bill of Rights. Civic constitutionalism is a mode of reading constitutional texts that considers power in political, as opposed to legal, terms. Thus, the civic constitution gives citizens, not judges, the primary duty for ensuring a constitutionally compliant society. This Article also presents the underlying reasons, effects, and costs of the obscurity of the civic constitution and, more specifically, the Preamble to the Bill of Rights.
April 14, 2017: The Judicial-Industrial Complex,
2017
Duquesne University
April 14, 2017: The Judicial-Industrial Complex, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “The Judicial-Industrial Complex“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
April 9, 2017: What I Learned At Pepperdine,
2017
Duquesne University
April 9, 2017: What I Learned At Pepperdine, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “What I learned at Pepperdine“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
April 8, 2017: The Supreme Court And Politics,
2017
Duquesne University
April 8, 2017: The Supreme Court And Politics, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “The Supreme Court and Politics“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
Gender As A Variable In Natural-Language Processing: Ethical Considerations,
2017
Texas A&M University School of Law
Gender As A Variable In Natural-Language Processing: Ethical Considerations, Brian N. Larson
Faculty Scholarship
Researchers and practitioners in naturallanguage processing (NLP) and related fields should attend to ethical principles in study design, ascription of categories/variables to study participants, and reporting of findings or results. This paper discusses theoretical and ethical frameworks for using gender as a variable in NLP studies and proposes four guidelines for researchers and practitioners. The principles outlined here should guide practitioners, researchers, and peer reviewers, and they may be applicable to other social categories, such as race, applied to human beings connected to NLP research.
April 2, 2017: Friday Op-Ed In The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Concerning Judge Gorsuch And Interpretation,
2017
Duquesne University
April 2, 2017: Friday Op-Ed In The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Concerning Judge Gorsuch And Interpretation, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Friday Op-ed in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Concerning Judge Gorsuch and Interpretation“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
What Is Meant By Freedom?,
2017
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
What Is Meant By Freedom?, Paul D. Callister
Faculty Works
Freedom is overlooked as a legal and social concept, with few attempts to define it. Lon Fuller articulated the critical question about freedom: “How can the freedom of human beings be affected or advanced by social arrangement, that is by laws, customs, institutions, or other forms of social order that can be changed or preserved by purposive human actions?” Freedom needs to be defined in the context of this question — as an ideal to be advanced by our social institutions, laws, and customs. The article first begins with a framework for freedom established by Lon Fuller in a neglected …
